Jayde Bentley

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@MumbowerMorgan It's crazy how easy registering as a resident was back then but now the process is insanely hard and expensive.

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@michell64238246 It's so sad to see how other humans were/are treated due to their ethnicities.

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@AndreanaSandov1 When African Americans were integrated with other white students in APS they sat at the back of the classroom and were forced to line up separately during commencement cereomies.

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@michell64238246 That is a great way to look at it! I think its amazing that the entire US is a melting pot. We are made up of so many different cultures and ethnicities.

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@michell64238246 It's crazy to think that before being integrated with white students in APS when African Americans wanted to attend school they had to go to Grants which was 80 miles away. It's also crazy to think at one point equality wasn't valued nor even considered.

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@Elizabe72532827 Most men worked on the WPA Road to support themselves and their families

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Code Talkers faced difficulty rejoining civillian life due to its limitations on their civil rights. #Hist2260

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

The Hoover Dam in the southern corner of Nevada had been constructed in 1931 to control irrigation and flooding in the Imperial Valley #Hist2260

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

The decade of the 1920's was characterized by the disenchantment embodied by writers, artists, and reformers - The Great Depression #Hist2260

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

The melting pot is an idea that is discussed in present day American society, early twentieth-century observers framed the U.S. as a melting pot - it was declared to be a place where people of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds came together to be "Americans" #Hist2260

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The fourth notion is that artists, writers, and reformers viewed New Mexico through the lens of the melting pot #Hist2260

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The third of four notions is that people who lived close to nature were considered closer to God #Hist2260

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The second of the four notions is people who lived agricultural lifestyles were supposedly inherently "honest, virtuous, industrious, frugal, pious, and incorruptible" #Hist2260

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

Perceptions of New Mexico and its peoples were based on four notions - first, was the idea that humans in preindustrial villages lived in harmony with the environment and their neighbors #Hist2260

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Any Mexican-heritage people in New Mexico illegally could pay a fee of $20 to register as residents #Hist2260

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Men from villages surrounding El Cerrito, San Miguel County, and New Mexico sought out WPA work to gain income to support themselves and their families during The Great Depression #Hist2260

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@Corina_CNM It was a typo

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

Blackson was an established community where Black Americans could build lives without having to endure segregation #Hist2260

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@davidmaez1 They had to cut their hair, dress differently, and speak differently and sometimes participate in millitary drills

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@davidmaez1 It's really sad that so many Natives didn't pass on their traditions and teach their language to their children because they were forbidden to speak their native languages and never passed it on

[Jayde Bentley @CNMJayde]

@katiiiann It was amazing how far they traveled so they could be free and start a new life